Donald Trump on Wednesday named a national leader in the school choice movement as the nation’s next education secretary.

Michigan GOP mega-donor and philanthropist Betsy DeVos was tapped by Team Trump after Washington, DC, school chancellor Michelle Rhee took herself out of the running.

DeVos, 58, is a champion of school choice and charter schools.

“Betsy DeVos is a brilliant and passionate education advocate,” Trump said Wednesday in a statement.

“Under her leadership, we will reform the U.S. education system and break the bureaucracy that is holding our children back so that we can deliver world-class education and school choice to all families.”

In a statement, DeVos said she was honored to help Trump “make American education great again” — a play on Trump’s campaign slogan.

“The status quo in education is not acceptable,” DeVos said.

“Together, we can work to make transformational change that ensures every student in America has the opportunity to fulfill his or her highest potential.”

DeVos, of Grand Rapids, is chairwoman of the American Federation for Children, which wants to expand charters as well as voucher programs that enable children to attend private schools at taxpayers’ expense.

On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to launch a $20 billion effort to support more school choice for low-income students.

DeVos’ group had a role in devising the plan.

But not everyone was happy with the pick.

Hours before it was announced, conservative policy leader Frank Cannon, president of the American Principles Project, called her “an establishment, pro-Common Core secretary of education.”

“This would not qualify as ‘draining the swamp,’” Cannon said, referencing Trump’s campaign-trail slogan. “And it seems to fly in the face of what Trump has stated on education policy up to this point.”

The DeVos family has been active in Republican politics for decades, especially as donors to GOP candidates and the Republican Party.

DeVos’ husband, Dick, is an heir to the Amway fortune and a former president of the company.

The couple gave $22.5 million to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington in 2010, at the time the largest private donation in the center’s history.

DeVos was slow to warm to Trump.

“A lot of the things he has said are very off-putting and concerning,” she said in July.